Alice Ting, associate professor of chemistry at Massachusetts Institue of Technology, is the recipient of the 2007 Buck-Whitney Award of the ACS Eastern New York Section for her work on the development of chemical reporters and targeting methods using nanomaterials for live-cell imaging of protein function. She received the award during the section's February meeting at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

The Buck-Whitney Award honors two of the section's deceased members: Johannes S. Buck, former associate research director of the Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute, and Willis R. Whitney, the first director of General Electric Research Laboratory.